Mr Benip, who rattled your cage?
I'm not smug, I'm pretty content and I'm smug about that, but I'm not smug!
However, I'll deal with the posting that offended you so much and caused you so much angst..
34 years is a long, long time to wait to get to decent money..!
The inference here is that until one has done 34 years service then the money is crap, not so. The money is pretty good from the start and gets better with every passing year. Also, at no time did Craggenmore (the original author of the above quote) define "decent money".
Smug enough?
In 34 years time, what's the UK tax threshold going to be for high earners..?
50% - 60% - 70%
Well, if this isn't bollox then I don't know what is. Is the author a clairvoyant tax specialist? In 34 years time will we all be flying to Mars on Branson's Space Atlantic, perhaps the earth will have changed into brown goo and we won't have the contamination figures to deal with it!! Perhaps tax in the UK will be a flat rate of 30 per cent.
I don't care much. I'll be smugly retired!
BA will most likely be up to 900/1000 hrs/year for all pilots within 5 years from now.
Well, if that's the case as put by our clairvoyant scheduling legislation, industrial representative, tax specialist then all other airlines will probably be doing the same, or more! I won't care because I'll be smugly retired!
You'd be better off at EZY - part time contract - European base. Like all the ex-BA captains at EZY..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Part time sounds good, the rest is, yes, bollox. Question for Craggenmore..
How many pilots have left BA for EZY since the retirement age was raised?
Any questions Mr Benip?
Yours well smugly